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This unique handbook presents and integrates virtually all that is currently known about eating disorders and obesity in one authoritative, accessible, and eminently practical volume. From leading international authorities, 101 concise chapters clearly synthesize the latest information on all pertinent topics, from biological issues and social variables associated with risk, to research findings and clinical methods for measurement and treatment.

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Compiles just about all that is known about both obesity and eating disorders not only to cement the growing convergence between the two fields but also to make the insights of each available to workers in the other. Contributors from around the world and a wide range of disciplines provide overviews of such aspects as dieting and body image, history, clinical characteristics, classification, epidemiology, etiology, physiological and medical aspects, assessment, and treatment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com

From The Critics

Reviewer: Thomas R. Scales, MD(Rush University Medical Center)Description: This is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of knowledge of all areas relevant to the dual fields of eating disorders and obesity. The second edition is not merely a recapitulation of the first edition published in 1995, but has all newly written chapters covering previous topics with an impressive expansion of chapters on regulation of body weight and eating.Purpose: The purpose is to strengthen the connections between the eating disorders and obesity fields and to provide a comprehensive account of knowledge in the two areas. Communication between these two fields is a particularly important goal now in these days when obesity is an epidemic in the western world. By extensive cross-referencing in the different parts of this book and particular attention to topics relevant to both fields, the book's goals are largely achieved.Audience: The book is written for an audience of practitioners and researchers in the fields of eating disorders and obesity. The multiple authors have all published extensively in their respective areas.Features: This book is organized into three broad parts, the foundation, eating disorders, and obesity. When reading the basic regulation of eating and body weight and dieting in the foundation part, one can't help but realize the theoretical relevance regardless of one's specialty interest. The chapters are short but comprehensive and introduce the reader to the most salient features of each topic. There are appropriate tables and graphs which aid in comprehension of the material. The lack of in-text references could be construed as a shortcoming in this book, but may actually better represent a true overview.Assessment: This is an extremely useful tool in the eating disorder and obesity fields and provides a fruitful marriage between these two fields which previous books have failed to achieve.

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"Brownell and Fairburn have assembled an international cast of experts to provide the definitive reference source on weight and eating disorders. This well-organized and carefully edited book is unmatched in providing the most current, most comprehensive, and most authoritative coverage of the field. The editors are to be commended for integrating existing knowledge on both weight and eating disorders in a single source. The book is an indispensable resource for busy practitioners, and a blessing for anyone teaching a course in the general area." --G. Terence Wilson, PhD, Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

"This volume is a treasure trove of information about eating disorders and obesity. It describes a very large part of what we know about these disorders in an accessible and user-friendly manner." --Albert J. Stunkard, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

"This volume presents a remarkable array of up-to-date information combining the latest scientific knowledge with humanistic concern....[It] contains the most current information on all aspects of eating disorders and obesity so that professionals with clinical or research questions in this area will have the critical information at hand in one volume. Students will find this invaluable. This volume is welcome and has been long overdue....It sets a very high standard, one which we hope will be maintained in future editions of this important volume." --From the foreword by Paul E. Garfinkel, MD, FRCP(C), Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

"On occasion, a book is published that is so unique in its contribution and so completely fulfills its lofty goals that it is bound to become a classic the moment the first copy rolls off the press. This volume edited by Brownell and Fairburn is one of those classics....Both editors have demonstrated throughout their careers a broad-based perspective that is clearly evident in this collaborative effort....The volume stands out for...its integration of eating disorders and obesity across disciplines, its comprehensiveness, and its synoptic style....One cannot overlook the reasonable price of the book...it is a true bargain that is rare among today's highly inflated book prices. Eating Disorders and Obesity succeeds as a valuable and unique scholarly contribution. I recommend it highly for the reference library of anyone interested in obesity, eating disorders, or behavioral medicine." --J. Scott Mizes for Contemporary Psychology

Academy for Eating Disorders Newsletter

"The breadth of topics covered in this volume guarantees that it will be the book to be consulted when a question on any issue in eating disorders or obesity is raised by a student, a client, or another professional."--Academy for Eating Disorders Newsletter

Cognitive Therapy Today

"Excellent....Serves as an encyclopedia of current knowledge on everything having to do with eating disorders and obesity."--Cognitive Therapy Today

Psychosomatics

"This book should be required reading for all medical students....It is also a wonderful quick reference book for anyone treating patients with eating disorders because the chapters are well written, short, and to the point."--Psychosomatics

International Association for the Study of Obesity Newsletter

"Breadth of coverage is what makes this [book] special, together with a genuine interest in bringing together two clinical fields that remain apart, occasionally in conflict. This is a book that will make many journeys from my bookshelf to desk. And I recommend it to anyone with an interest in obesity or eating disorders, student or professor, who is curious to find out about what lies beyond their own specialty."--International Association for the Study of Obesity Newsletter
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Meet the Author

Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. An internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation, he has served as president of several national organizations and has received numerous awards and honors for his work. His recent publications include [ital]Behavioral Medicine and Women[ital] (coedited with Elaine A. Blechman).

Christopher G. Fairburn, DM, FRCPsych., is Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Reader in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. A well-known international authority on eating disorders with research programs in Britain and the United States, he is coeditor (with G. Terence Wilson) of Binge Eating and author of Overcoming Binge Eating.

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Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., is an internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation. He is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. In 1994, he became Master of Silliman College at Yale. He has served as President of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association. He has published 12 books and more than 150 scientific articles. One book received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book from the American Library Association, and his paper on "Understanding and Preventing Relapse" published in the American Psychologist has been listed as one of the ten most frequently cited papers in psychology.

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